CDGK to purchase machinery worth Rs240mn

Karachi (PPI): City District Government Karachi has during last four years purchased machinery worth Rs.1.23billion, while further orders for procurement of machinery costing Rs.420million were also issued to respective suppliers. These machines will be used for solution of citizen's problems including sanitation and cleanliness. City Government is presently utilizing its 25 mechanical sweeping machines to clean the major roads and corridors of Karachi. This was stated by City Nazim Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal while addressing a ceremony held on the occasion of handling over of two modern sweeping machines to municipal services department at civic on Tuesday. These machines have been imported by city government form China with a cost of Rs12.3million. The Municipal Services Department will use them for lifting garbage and domestic waste from roads and cleaning and washing of roads. The American branded machines have the capacity of storing 2 thousand liter water and containing 2.5tons of garbage at a time. These machines can clean and wash 20km road in just an hour time and will be used to clean and was Shara-e-Faisal, all three signal-free corridors and 5000 Road from Sakhi Hassan to Surjani town. Speaking on this occasion, Kamal said that in today's era of science and technology it has become much easy to solve the problems of citizens. In all over the world machines are being used for rapid solution of the problems of citizens. Till four years back we did not had required machinery, however the Haq Parast leadership of city government succeeded in bringing modern and latest machinery and technology to Karachi in very short time. Today it has record machinery worth billions of rupees. The cleaning and sanitation condition in the city would get better due to these machines. He said that Haq Parast City Government has besides performing lot of development works also purchased latest machinery as a way to solve the peoples' problems in least possible time. We have taken all these steps to bring the city government Karachi at par with the developed mega cities of the world and this is another gift from city government to Karachiites.